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" according to Spiker's translation." It will give me 

 pleasure to do so. Shall I excite the ire of the Marquis 

 August von Schlegel or of Tieck Acorombonus ? Please 

 tell me whether they have also translated that passage ? 

 Many kind regards. 



HT. 



NOTE OF YARNHAGEN. Unfortunately Spiker's translation is bad in 

 every respect. 



56. 



HUMBOLDT TO YARNHAG-EN. 



MONDAY NIGHT, May 3, 1841. 



I AM afraid, my dear friend, that I shall be obliged to 

 go to Potsdam again on Thursday, and thence to Paris 

 on the 10th or 12th. I am to send Cotta more copy 

 before I go. Let me not be suspended so long between 

 condemnation and indulgence. Pray send me a few 

 words with the parcel. 



Yours, 



A. v. HUMBOLDT. 



